More information is coming from the Aeternity team soon about distribution, the remaining ledger nano claims to be processed, and more! Keep up on what's going on with the Aeternity team and Community on Slack and Telegram!

Belt & Road to aeternityaeternity was appointed to the RATA (Research and Technical Advisory) of the 'Belt & Road Blockchain Consortium'. The Consortium emerged from research done in 2013 on 'bridging the infrastructure gap' initiative in Asian regions. One of the primary conclusions of the report was that billions of US dollars will be necessary for the construction of new infrastructure able to connect and coordinate economic efforts between Eurasia and China.

Aeternity's first development update is now available. Learn what work is behind us and what lies ahead.___aeternity ‘Dev-Log’ Genesis___The aeternity Dev-Log:17–01___This is the start of a monthly series on the development of the æternity blockchain.Where are we now?___Let’s analyze where we currently stand at the end of Q2 2017.___Protocol DevelopmentDone. All protocols to run the main-net launch features are written & implemented; currently being tested on the test-net.Zack has started developing the features, since beginning of June.___Read more: https://blog.aeternity.com/%C3%A6ternity-dev-log-genesis-ce74a749d3f3

It has been both exciting and stressful weeks since the aeternity campaign ended. A lot of work has been done to make aeternity a reality and the best is yet to come.

Scaling an organization is tricky. Most startups fail because of this reason. It is easy to coordinate when you have 5 people on the team, but a group-size above 10 easily becomes chaotic. By all means, aeternity has been very efficient in handling operations so far. Scaling these operations and restructuring the team has been quite difficult during the past weeks. On a good note, the tech team is growing well and once we have thoroughly tested the new setup, we will announce the new hires.

Public blockchains are defining a new era in free/libre, open-source software development.

Did you know there is a difference between “free software” and “open-source software”? Turns out that just like in the case of public and private blockchains, when it comes to producing “free” or “open” software (think of “free speech,” not “free beer”)(1), there are camps who each support differing philosophies. The worldview “fork” in this case is caused by the definition of a fundamental concept and many will argue basic human right - freedom.

Change log summarizing current development of the aeternity blockchain up until mid of July.As of the beginning of May 2017, Zack Hess, our tech lead, was ready with the implementation of essential parts of the blockchain. These include;